Luciano Pavarotti, famed for his flirtatiousness, was once interviewed on television by Pia Lindstrom, Ingrid Bergman's beautiful daughter. Lindstrom remarked that a critic had recently suggested that Pavarotti's vocal chords had been 'kissed by God'. "I think," Pavarotti replied without missing a beat, "that He kissed you all over!"

[Pavarotti was also inspired by the lovely Sophia Loren, whose performance in Aida he once credited with inspiring him to become a singer.]

["Britney Spears" is to "seen snorting coke," Conan O'Brien once declared, as "Luciano Pavarotti is to "seen snorting cake".]